Björkian

English

Adjective

Björkian (comparative more Björkian, superlative most Björkian)

1. Of or relating to Björk (Björk Guðmundsdóttir, born 1965), Icelandic singer-songwriter known for her eclectic and innovative style.
   • 1997, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 43, page 12:

     Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of "Army Of Me" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns "Hyperballad" into a stately 3-D chess game.

   • 2000, SPIN, volume 16, number 1, page 126:

     Here Native Tongues beats gird good-golly-Miss-Mali feminism, cameos from the Roots and This Kid Named Miles, pygmy flute-scat, and flurries of drum'n'bass-driven Björkian ecstasy.